Beats 1.7a-r570
Philip Peng
- Report bugs/oddities here
- If you are interested in helping translate Beats, see below
- Include explanations with tweak suggestions
- Post large feature suggestions on the Beats Portable forums
- Check the To-Do list at http://beatsportable.com/todo/
== Install ==
Uninstall any previous official release and install the latest test
build from below
http://beatsportable.com/static/testing/beats-r570.apk
http://beatsportable.com/static/testing/ will list all old test
versions/files while
http://beatsportable.com/static/releases/ will list all released
versions.
== Translate ==
If you are interested in translating Beats to a non-English language,
please join the translation project at crowdin:
http://crowdin.net/project/beats
The strings are separated into three files:
arrays_trans.xml - these are the options used by settings
settings_trans.xml - these are settings names, descriptions,
categories
strings_trans.xml - these are game texts
Note that translations do NOT have to be approved (for the time being)
but if you notice any mistranslations or phrases that could be better
translated, feel free to change them.
== Changes since r519 (1.6.2b) ==
- tablet support!!!
- improved screen updating and scaling
- modified sliders and guidelines for osu! Mod
- smarter osu difficulty selection
- custom loadable graphics
- new SM-based default noteskin
- updated with Immersion MOTIV Haptic Effects, Version 3.4.73
- more touch-friendly main menu
- rearranged settings menus a bit
- translation update
- removed MobFox
== Comments ==
Enough changes that I think a bump in version number is necessary! If
you haven't already, check out the video at
http://beatsportable.com/2011/08/beats-1-7a-preview-and-250k-downloads/
(yes, Beats 1.x has over 250k downloads now!)
Major changes include the introduction of scaling, tablet-friendly
main menu layouts, completely redone screen-updating mechanism
(possibly unstable?), redesigned graphics, loadable graphics, osu! Mod
guidelines, osu! Mod sliders, and updated UHL and translations!
Things of importance to test is scaling, framerate, feedback on new
graphics (the old ones are still available as an option), and the osu!
Mod sliders (which do not behave exactly the same way as in osu!, but
its fine since its an extremely weird hack anyway).
Things to work on before the actual 1.7b release is repeating sliders
support (for osu! Mod), possibly spinners (but most likely not),
Scoreloop support, and possibly HeyZap support (what the heck, why
not). May also play around with menu sound effects and osu! sound
effects, but depends on amount of free time (will be deciding between
working on Beats 1.x, Beats2, and Tsukikage, my WIP Touhou clone).
Happy testing!
~Keripo
Boris Burdenko
--
~@OneCrazyRussian
Boris Burdenko
--
~@OneCrazyRussian
k.dar...@gmail.com
For the pause-resume wait time, I can experiment with that, but I think it'll end up introducing more complexity due to the Android's Music Service being unreliable. Will probably end up implementing something instead like "tap the screen to resume".
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On 1 авг, 10:56, Philip Peng <k.darkti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> == Info ==
> - Report bugs/oddities here
> - If you are interested in helping translate Beats, see below
> - Include explanations with tweak suggestions
> - Post large feature suggestions on the Beats Portable forums
> == Install ==
> Uninstall any previous official release and install the latest test
> versions/files whilehttp://beatsportable.com/static/releases/will list all released
Boris Burdenko
--
~@OneCrazyRussian
k.dar...@gmail.com
Sliders appear with 1 second lag on my Samsung Galaxy Ace
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Boris Burdenko <booogag...@gmail.com> wrote:
XWing Ace
And I hadn't even gotten around to commenting on the previous version yet!
> Things of importance to test is scaling, framerate, feedback on new
> graphics (the old ones are still available as an option), and the osu!
> Mod sliders (which do not behave exactly the same way as in osu!, but
> its fine since its an extremely weird hack anyway).
Menu looks fine now on my phone since the previous revision. I love
the new game-mode switching style.
I've noticed some extremely minor lag when playing a .sm file in osu!
mode on hard difficulty, but not otherwise. As in, I don't get up to
80 fps any more. Nothing like the lag reported by others.
I like the new look of osu! mod, with the lines connecting distant
beats. Although the only time I really see them is in Osu!rand mode,
because otherwise the beats tend to be too close together. (On my
phone) Examples in Screenshot 1/Screenshot 2 (osu!random). Contrast
Screenshot 4 (osu!pattern)
Sliders look great, but... I don't think I've figured out how to make
them work yet. Basically the only time I've managed to pass one was if
it was a short one and I was spamming. What am I supposed to do?
Oh yes, and if I switch over to osu!random mode on an actual .osz file
with sliders, something... weird happens. Like in Screenshot 3.
Sliders work fine in random mode for .sm files. In as far as I can
make them work for me at all, but that's me sucking, not due to Beats.
:-)
XWA
k.dar...@gmail.com
Sliders are a pretty ugly hack (which I don't plan on "fixing" as the proper "fix" would actually be rewriting the main Beats engine to support sliders, e.g. what Beats2 is for) and don't have the exact same behaviour as in actual osu!. I've removed the second number and made the slider path fatter in http://beatsportable.com/static/testing/beats-r573.apk so that should make things a bit easier to understand. The .sm -> osu logic wasn't meant to account for sliders in the first place, so yes, you'll get weird cases of sliders being placed on top of tap notes and such - I think that's acceptable for the time being considering how the hack works. As for Screenshot 3, could you link me to the beatmap that you are testing? In osu!, peppy uses .NET's built-in functions for calculating paths whereas I just create a bunch of bezier curves that mostly look close enough. Still trying to tweak things around so it looks closer to what osu! has, so sample beatmaps would help a lot.
~Keripo
XWing Ace
> "fix" would actually be rewriting the main Beats engine to support sliders,
> e.g. what Beats2 is for) and don't have the exact same behaviour as in
> actual osu!. I've removed the second number and made the slider path fatter
> in http://beatsportable.com/static/testing/beats-r573.apk so that should
> make things a bit easier to understand.
I'll check all of that in the morning. ;-) I'll have time to play on
my way in to work.
> The .sm -> osu logic wasn't meant to
> account for sliders in the first place, so yes, you'll get weird cases of
> sliders being placed on top of tap notes and such - I think that's
> acceptable for the time being considering how the hack works.
I'm sorry if it looked like I was complaining about that, because I
honestly wasn't. I haven't noticed anything like that. I'm really
impressed by the conversion, actually!
The only thing I can think of that might have given that impression
was just me grumping again that in pattern mode, beats are really
close together in sm-> osu files. I wasn't expecting anything like a
fix on that anyway.
>As for
> Screenshot 3, could you link me to the beatmap that you are testing? In
> osu!, peppy uses .NET's built-in functions for calculating paths whereas I
> just create a bunch of bezier curves that mostly look close enough. Still
> trying to tweak things around so it looks closer to what osu! has, so sample
> beatmaps would help a lot.
The screenshot was taken from http://osu.ppy.sh/s/9407 on medium, but
I've also noticed it on http://osu.ppy.sh/s/26882
(I love that second one a lot. It's very relaxing music to play, it
has plenty of curves and holds and enough notes to make it
interesting, but few enough to make it comfortably playable. It's not
so good for testing, though, as the stepfile has a rather long wait at
the start before notes start appearing)
I'll add again that this wasn't in normal osu! mode, but in
osu!RANDOM, with a proper osz file containing curves
The problem is not so much the curve going wonky, but that the 'end'
beat of the curve is no longer connected to it.
XWA
XWing Ace
> The FPS counter in older versions was actually inaccurate (anyone above 60
> FPS is actually physically impossible since Android screens refresh at
> 60Hz), although the current method of calculations will occasionally go
> above 60 FPS due to rounding errors (but never much more).
Quite possibly it is, but I still get 'FPS' calculations of 80+ on
average, sometimes shooting up to over a 100 (taking screenshots of
that is really tough, though, because my reaction time isn't quick
enough).
Maybe I'm actually seeing a percentage of max FPS, and the 100+ are
the rounding errors? Just thinking with my fingers, here.
> Sliders are a pretty ugly hack (which I don't plan on "fixing" as the proper
> "fix" would actually be rewriting the main Beats engine to support sliders,
> e.g. what Beats2 is for) and don't have the exact same behaviour as in
> actual osu!. I've removed the second number and made the slider path fatter
> in http://beatsportable.com/static/testing/beats-r573.apk so that should
> make things a bit easier to understand.
Sliders look great, and if I put the speed on *really slow* (1.00x) I
can even sometimes manage to hit one. I still haven't figured out what
I do differently between the ones I do hit and the ones I don't,
though.
I do sometimes have the feeling, with long, fast sliders, that they
only appear halfway through the slide. Also if I miss the beat
*before* the slider, I will automatically miss the slider as well. I
guess now I know what people feel like when they see Oendan/EBA for
the first time, without any context explanation.
Sigh. It's a little frustrating. The sliders make Osu!mode really look
like it should, and on the songs that I managed to get anywhere before
failing miserably (because I missed 19 sliders out of 20) was about
ten times as fun to play as osu!mod in 1.6x. Really almost like
playing Oendan. But I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Now I
want to try a different phone to see if maybe it's the hardware's
fault (tiny screen and fat fingers, not usually a good combination.
But I've managed fine so far). But of course I don't know anyone else
with an Android phone that a) I have physical access to and b)
wouldn't mind me installing stuff on their phone.
XWA
Boris Burdenko
After some testing catched 2 bugs
1)in landscape Beats! main menu logo overlaps the ad (1st screenshot)
2)in classic themed arrows, holds don't have a visible end 0_0 (2nd screenshot)
|OneCrazyRussian
XWing Ace
be there is gone. I'm trying to edit the image files to make a nice
closer, but I'm a total n00b at using image editing software for
something like this (You'd think drawing a triangle would be easy...)
XWA
2011/8/7 Boris Burdenko <booogag...@gmail.com>:
Boris Burdenko
"gone"? How so 0_0 ... The truth is out there =/
You could ask me to try =D ... Two days before.. I'm again stuck with my PIII 800mhz 256ram for two weeks approx and on 2g/3g SOMETIMES. Operation codename "dacha"©
|OneCrazyRussian
XWing Ace
with the new 'default' graphics, more of a hindrance in that case
even.
As for asking anyone else to try... well, I didn't think it was up to
me to ask. I was trying to make a custom noteskin based on the
original one for myself, and if it turned out right, I could share. So
far unsuccessful, though.
XWA
2011/8/8 Boris Burdenko <booogag...@gmail.com>:
reason
XWing Ace
> It didn't work when I had tried to download song from OSU
(Maybe this would have been a better question for the forum?)
Download from where to where?
It currently says on the Downloads page on the Beats Portable site
that Osu files can't as yet be downloaded directly to your phone. You
can download them to your computer and then put them on your phone
that way.
Or did you mean something else?
XWA
hbhbenny647
tried it before.
On Aug 8, 9:56 pm, XWing Ace <xwing...@gmail.com> wrote:
Philip Peng
released. Pretty much the same as 1.7a-r570 just with a few changes.
Finally changing focus to Beats2 now ; )
http://beatsportable.com/2011/09/beats-1-7b-final-open-sourced/
~Keripo
On Aug 1, 2:56 am, Philip Peng <k.darkti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> == Info ==
> - Report bugs/oddities here
> - If you are interested in helping translate Beats, see below
> - Include explanations with tweak suggestions
> - Post large feature suggestions on the Beats Portable forums
> == Install ==
> Uninstall any previous official release and install the latest test
> versions/files whilehttp://beatsportable.com/static/releases/will list all released